Nurse Quotations

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle ...

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I was fortunate to have contact with a palliative nurse who was recovering from hip replacement surgery and would be available to me 24/7, ... I relied heavily on her, and she got me through it. Then after that I thought, there's something wrong with the system.

I would have been able to come back and play ... With an injury, the longer you sit on the sideline and kind of nurse it a little bit, the stiffer you get. Once I got stiff, there was no need to go back in.

When I'm boxing I'm strictly in the mentality of a boxer. When I'm a nurse I'm strictly in the mentality of a nurse. When I'm around the boys I'm a mom. That is truly my number one job.

My grandmother used to go with her church to visit the soldiers at Walter Reed. But she had to stop. Couldn't take it anymore. She was a nurse at Georgetown University Hospital for 30 years, and she had seen a lot. But seeing all of those boys coming back from Iraq -- hundreds of them, 19-, 20-, 21-year-olds -- all torn apart like that, it just broke her heart.

Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.

Point-of-care ADL documentation is very significant. It allows the nurse aides to spend more time caring for the resident. We have found that documentation is more accurate with this type of documentation as well. Integration is important so that various departments don't have to enter the same information over and over again.

Now that the truth is out, I want justice. I want the guards and nurse to be arrested.

Right now it's more important to have Lauren for the Conference Championships than to have her compete in the multi-events at Drake. It's unfortunate that she was invited to compete in the event, but we need to do what we can to nurse her back to health and have her ready to go in two weeks.

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

I didn't really get into second gear until I was 30. My first wife was a nurse and she was very anti. I never really started caning it until 1990, when I was 29. I had to make up for being a late starter. It wasn't self-destruction - I was having fun. There was never any reason to stop doing it, because it was fun. It makes it much harder to give up. It wasn't even starting to hurt.

I'd like to see sleep be a genuine vital sign that's on the chart, there for the nurse to have to address on every visit, and find out what the patient's been doing about their problem up until then.

I do a lot of C-sections in my practice, so this was nothing different. The puppies were about two weeks premature and didn't have hair. We were able to revive the puppies. I tried to get them to nurse on their own, but they wouldn't eat. I had to feed them with a syringe. It was a lot of work for me, getting up every two hours to stimulate them and feed them by hand.

Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we the living our lives are giving To bring the bright new world to birth.

millionaire and a nurse would be taxed the same. It is unfair.

Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.

She never contacted the office or the nurse to find out if someone was actually picking him up.

She came into the race (last year) on a very light preparation and I wasn't actually able to train her for the race. I had to nurse her into the race and get her here as fit as I could on the day.

Sean probably won't practice for two days. We're going to try to nurse him and get him ready to go for Thursday. We felt this was important to try to go with him, and he fought. When he went out of the game, we couldn't get a four man to try to run our offense. And if you don't run your offense, you're not going to beat a team as good as Midland.

She was just getting it together-you know, going to be a nurse practitioner, going to school studying to be a nurse.

She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate.

She was committed to her profession as a nurse to serve people and to serve the community she lived in.

She's gone out of her way to nurse an image that's more than just an antagonist of Fidel Castro. To her credit, she's been very effective and holds a valued opinion on a diverse range of topics.

Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

I was in so much pain. I had no idea what was happening to me. I was scared and fearful. Then a nurse came by and held my hand and told me don't worry 'cause everything would be just fine. At that moment, my pain had suddenly vanished and I had no idea what had happened. It showed me how something so simple can make a huge difference.

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.

I would say that she was an intelligent woman who had a great personality and a great sense of humor. She was an outstanding nurse when she was still practicing. She adored her nieces and nephews.

There are so many needs, and I understand that. But we just think schools would be safer if they had a nurse on staff.

Getting in the nurse anesthesia program was harder than getting a job. I had applied the year before and did not get accepted.

Caring for others is accomplished by a dazzling array of skills in an endless variety of circumstances. As well as cooking, shopping, cleaning, laundering, planting, tending, harvesting for others, women comfort and guide, nurse and teach, arrange and advise, discipline and encourage, fight for and pacify. Taxing and exhausting under any circumstances, this service work, this emotional housework, is done both outside and inside the home.

I am amazed by the privileges people think they deserve when they haven't done the hard work. By hard work, I mean paying your dues. A nurse does not get the same privileges as a doctor and there is a reason why. It is the level of effort and responsibility it takes to get there and stay there.

I am happy. I want to become a nurse after college and help people, like the ones that helped me.

He was trying to do what they wanted him to do but they still beat him, kicked, punched him, and the nurse stood around there and didn't do nothing.

The people that domesticated cattle and started drinking milk learned how to digest it as adults. Normally, creatures after they grow up cannot digest milk easily. For instance, a kitten will nurse and digest milk, but then will grow up, stop drinking it, and start catching mice.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

Our client is a compassionate, professional nurse who has devoted much of her life to kindly and gently counsel women during a difficult time in life. The ordinance violates her constitutional rights because it prohibits her from engaging in peaceful free speech as she has done for over 15 years on public property outside abortion clinics.

I think he misunderstood what was going on. He probably thought he was going home since the nurse called me.

I think (the layoff) hurt us. Having that layoff is good to nurse injuries, but it also kind of takes away from being tuned up and (it takes away) from the intensity.

The practice set up at the different shelters off of the Hill, ... Susan Gisler, our nurse practitioner, helped with getting medication to patients who left the Hill without their prescriptions. Dr. Schoonover and I worked out of the Pojoaque and Santa Fe shelters. And Dr. Nichols worked with patients in Albuquerque.

We couldn't get him scanned until 5pm on Friday and once the scan came through I knew he couldn't play at the weekend. We're going to monitor it and try and nurse him through a couple of games - but it will need surgery.

We receive at least 250 applications from Indiana, Ohio and Michigan for 25 seats each year. Not everyone can be a PA. It is not easy, and it's sometimes beyond the scope of ability for people to do it. When we look at applications, the main thing that stands out is 'do we want that person to take care of our parent?' Like a nurse practitioner, it is a higher level of care. You have to have an open and honest heart and sometimes we have to tell them there are other ways to help besides becoming a PA.

Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.

Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!